Had a discussion with the wife...

inkjunkie said
Somebody had mentioned perhaps abandonment issues. I talked to my wife about this today. There Dad was a Field worker. Often was gone during the week, but always home on the weekends. Most summers they would spend a month or so with him, near one of the Farms he was working. Several summers, he would take a month or so off from work and take everyone down to where he grew up, near Mexico City.

I mentioned the abandonment issues and this is almost a textbook scenario of what can generate them, especially in young children who don't fully understand why dad can't be around all the time. They don't understand that dad needs to make a living. They only understand that dad's not here when they skin their knee or needed a bicycle tire fixed, or he's not around to explain why a boyfriend blew off a date to hang with his buddies... or just be around for a hug every so often.

inkjunkie said
From what little my wife knows of Chapalito, he is far from an upstanding type of guy. He is known to use girlfriends for what he can and then just kind of toss them aside. Wife had made mention of one of his previous Girlfriends putting up the money for a deposit on the new car, and once the furnacing was taken care of he sent her packing.

This is the exact type of "a**hole" guy I spoke of in my earlier post. I suspect this relationship is based on orgasms and will quicky fall to the wayside when she finds another a**hole who can give her a better pickle tickle than Chapalito, if she hasn't already because of the picture incident.